Happy Hair Clips part 4

Here's the 4th Clip in this series: "5 minute Circles" I first made this clip one sunday morning when we were about to head out the door to church. I happened to notice Sophie, my girl least favorable to hair accessories, with her hair all in her eyes. I knew she would tolerate these plain metal clips but it needed just a little something to dress it up. I quickly plugged my hot glue gun in, cut out a few circles of felt that matched her dress, glued them on in a hurry and ran out the door. Later i decided a little paint might make it even cuter without adding a bunch of extra time. 

Materials Needed: Clips, Spray Paint, Felt, Hot glue

Steps:

1. Spray paint the clip

2. Plug in hot glue gun to heat up

3. Cut out circles of felt

4. Create some color combinations

5. Glue circles together, then glue metal clip onto the circles.

6. DONE! 

i used a gloss yellow and satin dove white "fusion" spray paint. The satin "fusion" coated the best in one coat. The yellow gloss was more runny and took a couple coats to cover. If you want this done in 5 minutes, i suggest a satin finish and the "fusion" kind worked the best!)

Mix and match the circles to make some cute combinations

Glue the layers and the metal clip

here's what my Sophie looks most days without a hair clippy

And here's her clip in action; keeping her hair out of her cute little face.

linking to the southern institute and sewmuchado

Happy Hair Clips part 3

Here's the 3rd Clip in this series: "T-Shirt Blossoms"

Materials Needed: Old Knit T-shirts, hot glue, metal clip (alligator clip)

Steps: 

1. Fold a strip of knit fabric (about 4 inches wide) into 3-4 layers

2. Cut out a few stacks of different sizes of circles on the layered fabric

3. Cut a thin strip of fabric- about a 1/2 inch wide and 4 inches long

4. Make the little rosette bud for the middle by slowly rolling, twisting and glueing the fabric strip.

5. Put a small swirl of glue on each of the layers all the way up to the little rosette '

6. Glue on the metal clip

How to make the center of the blossom or the "rosette"

Start by folding and glueing one end

Gradually keep twisting and wrapping the fabric around the center glueing often. Keep the glue toward the bottom of the wrap to avoid extra glue squishing out through the top.

ta-Da!

Thank you, Madeline for being my model once again. ;)

linking to:  SugarandDots and SewMuchAdo

Happy Hair Clips part 2

Here's the 2nd Clip in this little series: "Felty Flowers"

Materials Needed: assortment of colored felt, beads, embroidery floss, hot glue, metal hair clip

Steps:

1. Cut out several different sized circles, then cut out lots of petals (the bigger the better, in my opinion)

2. Layer the flowers then sew through the bead to secure all the layers

OR just Hot glue each layer together and glue on a button/bead on top

3. Sew on the metal clip

4. Put a dab of hot glue under the clip where you have just sewn

5. Put a dab of hot glue on the the other tip of the hair clip to secure to the flower

Once again, clip onto a little girl or onto your own hair and enjoy and if you'd like one of these clips, i'd be happy to send one to you, just  let me know! :)

linking to: Blue Cricket Design, TrendyTreeHouse, SewMuchAdo, Lollipops

Happy Hair Clips part 1

Well hello there, this is the first in a little series of hair accessory ideas. I plan to share several variations of hair clips throughout the next week or two. Keep checking back!

**Oh, and since only one of my girls will allow any fun clips in her hair, i'd love to pass on a few to YOU. If you'd like one, just leave a comment and i'll see how many i can make and send out as the series goes on. :)

Here's the first one: "Color Burst Clip"

Materials: tulle, thread, small piece of fabric, poly-fill, metal hair clip

1. Fold tulle in half twice so it is has 4 layers, then cut a strip about 18 inches long and 3-4 inches wide
2. Gather the tulle by hand or machine leaving about a 1/4inch edge
3. Tie the ruffled/gathered tulle to form a tight circle
4. Cut a 3x3 inch square of fabric
5. Roll a big chunk of poly-fill into a tight ball
6. Wrap the fabric around the ball and sew to create a little pouch-type ball
7. Stuff the little fabric ball through the hole in the tulle circle and hot clue the edges to keep it in place
8. Sew the metal clip onto the back, hot glue the top to make it more secure.

Tie the two ends together tightly

Push the bundle all the way through the center of the tulle

Hot glue around the edges and squish the tulle into the fabric bundle

Trim the tulle if you'd like and trim the extra fabric

Sew the metal clip to the back, through the little hole in the hair clip.

Put a dab of hot glue on the back to make it extra secure.

Clip onto a little girl and enjoy!

{linking to Lollipops, the trendy tree house, sew much ado, somewhatsimple}